Head to Head Survey: ECARX (NASDAQ:ECXWW) vs. Adient (NYSE:ADNT)

Adient (NYSE:ADNT) and ECARX (NASDAQ:ECXWW) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for Adient and ECARX, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Adient	3	3	6	0	2.25
ECARX	0	0	0	0	0.00

Adient presently has a consensus price target of $26.60, suggesting a potential upside of 40.12%. Given Adient’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Adient is more favorable than ECARX.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

92.4% of Adient shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Adient shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Adient and ECARX”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Adient	$14.54 billion	0.10	-$281.00 million	$0.60	31.64
ECARX	$881.26 million	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

ECARX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Adient.

Profitability

This table compares Adient and ECARX’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Adient	0.32%	7.32%	1.66%
ECARX	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Adient beats ECARX on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Adient

Adient plc engages in the design, development, manufacture, and market of seating systems and components for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and light trucks. The company's automotive seating solutions include complete seating systems, frames, mechanisms, foams, head restraints, armrests, and trim covers. It serves automotive original equipment manufacturers in North America and South America; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and the Asia Pacific/China. Adient plc was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

About ECARX

ECARX Holdings Inc. develops a full stack automotive computing platform to shape the interaction between people and cars by rapidly advancing the technology by smart mobility worldwide. It offers system on chips, central computing platforms, operating systems, and software. Its core products include infotainment head units, digital cockpits, vehicle chip-set solutions, core operating system, and integrated software stack. The company has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Black Sesame Technologies. The company is based in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.